Incipit with illuminated Headpiece
Walters manuscript W.579 opens with an illuminated headpiece containing a cartouche with the doxological formula (basmalah) in Tawqi' script. Fluid and curvilinear, Tawqi' script is used for headings and rarely used for the main text. As seen here, while having inscribed the h...
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76636
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Vizier al-Shahid 'Ali Pasha, ca. 1130 AH/AD 1717 (?) [mode of acquisition unknown] [waqf-seal impression of the Vizier dated 1130 AH/AD 1717 with the original shelf mark 1414 on fols. 2a, 2b, and 3a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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1
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.579.2B_Fp_DD_300.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.579.2B_Fp_DD_300.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.579.2B_Fp_DD_300.jpg |
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.579.2B |
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